Punch,  8 (1845), 204.

Medicine for a Minister

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Politics, Government, Medical Treatment, Mental Illness


    Describes a 'highly respectable meeting of general practitioners' convened to oppose the Home Secretary James R G Graham's medical bill. Practitioners agree that Graham is mad and argue for various treatments including 'shaving the head', 'venesection', a 'low diet', and leeching.



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